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Subscribing, unsubscribing, and setting user options via the listinfo page

Subscribing, unsubscribing, and setting user options via the listinfo page - Mailman Tutorial

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Subscribing, unsubscribing, and setting user options via the listinfo page

- Now that the list is up and running, I'm going to change from the administrator's view of the list to the subscriber's view of the list. Everything I'm going to discuss in this chapter can be done by any list subscriber. In most cases, you will be a subscriber to your own list of course. So you will need to understand these Mailman features for your own sake, as well as understanding what your users are seeing. The subsriber's primary gateway to the list other than the list messages they send and receive is the Listinfo page. This is a public webpage. Anyone who can find it, can use it. So as a subscriber, I can look in the welcome message that I received when I joined the list and click on the link, General information about the mailing list to visit the Listinfo page. At the top of the Listinfo page, you see the list name and description, which are configured through the General Options page. The next section headed About Ceramics shows the list's default language, configured…

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